Job Purpose:To be a thought leader in both strategy and innovation with the evaluation of existing technologies, as well as the development of strategic Solutions and building a shared platform, including the tools, services, workflows, and data used by engineers and technical teams across the organization encompassing the shared platforms infrastructure, applications, and strategic aspect Job Responsibilities:Architect, develop, support and maintain enterprise DevOps principles and practices.Lead, mentor and guide DevOps engineers in the design, building and maintenance of DevOps technologies, platform engineering practices throughout their respective life cycles.Partner with full stack teams to assess the enterprise and to improve effectiveness of the software delivery pipeline.Maintain and facilitate compliance with company, security, and regulatory standards.Foster innovation within the DevOps team to assist the team to continuously improve.Influence and collaborate within Tribes and Portfolios to architect and Design Software Deployment PipelinesLiaise with vendors to drive the selection procurement of DevOps enabling technologies and services.Lead and guide engineers in the design, building and maintenance full life cycle of selected DevOps technologies.Lead the design and/or development, testing and evaluation of systems and infrastructure (Infrastructure as Code preferably)Lead the creation of DevOps patterns and practices for the enterprise.Manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments asMaintain and facilitate compliance with company, security and regulatory standards.Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values.Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise.Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities Contribute to the companies Culture building initiatives (e.g., staff surveys etc.).Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy. Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models, and systems though agile thinking.Monitoring systems to analyse performance, security, and reliability.Developing automation scripts and tooling using DevOps Tooling.Drive a culture of everything as code.Developing tools and processes to allow Developers to be self-sufficient.Building, supporting, and maintaining the Self-service Cloud platform.Hyper collaboration with different teams i.e. Security, DevOps, Application teams etc.Enabling, managing, and driving FinOps across the Cloud Providers (Azure / AWS). Essential Qualifications - NQF Level:Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees Preferred Qualification:Degree in computer science, math or software engineering or equivalent technical experience BSC Computer Science. Job Responsibilities Continue: Azure Certifications (e.g., AZ400 Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps)AWS Certifications (e.g., AWS Dev Ops Engineers)IaC Certifications (e.g., HashiCorp Terraform, Chef)Container Platform Certifications (e.g., CKA or CKAD)Java or. Microsoft .NET Certifications Skills (Technologies/Software Knowledge):AnsibleChefSQL (e.g. MS SQL, PostgreSQL)AgileDevOpsTerraformSonarQube / SonarCloudSonatype NexusAzure DevOpsAzureAWSKubernetes Preferred Certifications:One of the following certifications would be advantageous: DevOps Certification, LPI, RHCE, RHCA, MCSE, MCSD, CSM, OCAJP, SCJA, OCPJP or any other technical certificationCloud certification is preferred above fundamentals Minimum Experience Level:10+ years as a Software Developer in either or all of the following: Web Development, Windows Services Development, Mobile Development, Application Development, Back-end Development, Cloud Computing or10+ years as a Systems Administrator on multiple platforms on-premises and in the CloudDevOps experience in cloud deploymentAzure and/or AWS experience Type of Exposure:Expert understanding of architecting, designing and the implementation of a DevOps Tools in an enterprise environmentExpert knowledge of how to build a continuous integration, continuous delivery and continuous deployment pipeline with an emphasis on quality good understanding of release strategiesGood understanding of monitoring techniquesExpert understanding of security and automation with regards to DevOps practices and patterns with hands-on experienceManagement and integration of tooling related to DevOps practices in a Cloud environmentExperience in an agile development environment using Scrum and/or Extreme Programming Technical / Professional Knowledge:Java Development with J2EE and/or Springboot knowledge (Advanced)Microsoft ASP.NET, .NET CORE, C#, VB.NET (Advanced)JavaScript Frameworks (Angular.js, React.js, Aurelia.js, Vue.js) (Advanced)Automation products such as Terraform, Chef, Ansible, SlatStack or Puppet (Advanced)Administering either of the following Linux or Unix distributions RedHat Linux, SUSE Linux, Devian, Ubuntu, AIX, SCO, HP/UX (AdvancedBash and/or PowerShell scripting (Advanced) Behavioral Competencies:Facilitating ChangeCoachingDriving InnovationStrategic PlanningEmotional Intelligence EssentialsTechnical/Professional Knowledge and Skills